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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...place in the Harvard Faculty, psychology, as taught in most American colleges, was baseless assumptions in regard to the workings of the human brain. It had no relation to the practical facts of life, was of no imaginable utility in a workaday world, and appealed only to a very small class of closet philosophers who had no interest in Things as They Are. That Professor Muensterberg "changed all that" cannot be claimed, but it is true he did as much as anybody else, and more than all except a few others, to put the science of mind in this country...
...western front is as precarious today as it has ever been in the history of man. I cannot give the exact average length of life in the front trenches, but I know that it is measured in weeks rather than months, and perhaps in days. In the beginning, the small Expeditionary force held on to the long line with ever-diminishing numbers but were mercifully relieved in May of 1915 by the first Kitchener division, the Ninth, of which my regiment was a part. This ended the first stage of the war, but the second continued for over a year...
...they have to suffer as do other participants in the war. For humane and economic reasons, these animals, commandeered from hunting stables, from the farm, and from the street, should receive a share of the attention given to sick and wounded men. Those who subscribe but a small amount to the Blue Cross Fund will do much to accomplish this object...
There will be booths at the Bazaar representing the different countries, where articles of all sizes at prices large and small, will be sold. Mammoth exhibits have been arranged, and concerts, dancing and cabarets will furnish additional amusement. World famous artists will entertain, and war heroes such as Captain Ian Hay Beith, author of "The First Hundred Thousand," and Sergeant Middlemus, who was blinded by a German shot, will tell of their experiences...
...Britain, Belgium, Italy, Russia and the other members of the Entente. The exhibit will attract those who are strictly neutral in their feelings and also those who favor the ultimate supremacy of the Central Powers. There will be exhibits never before shown in this country, articles of great and small value for sale and entertainment by the world's greatest artists...